PITTSBURGH, Jan. 22 When anthrax was sent through the U.S. Postal Service in 2001, an overwhelming majority of postal workers elected not to be inoculated with the available vaccine because of confusion and distrust, according to a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health study. ...

Mice given combination version of immunization survived exposure, study reports,,,,
THURSDAY, April 10 (HealthDay News) -- American researchers have developed a nasal spray anthrax vaccine that provides protection against the potentially deadly bacterium, at least in mice.
By "deto...

Though not ready for humans, it offered immunity for at least 6 months
FRIDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental nasal anthrax vaccine proved highly effective in tests in mice and guinea pigs, a University of Michigan Medical School study shows.
After it was placed inside the animal...

Eleven people were admitted to hospital in South Africa on Friday after they came into contact with an envelope suspected to contain anthrax powder, police said.
Inspector Juanita Kilian said police had received a complaint from the post office in the district of Alberton, south of Johanne...

Bhubaneswar, June 1 (IANS) Two people in Orissa's Koraput district have died of anthrax, a fairly uncommon disease while many people have been infected by the virus, health officials said Friday.
Bisu Sisa, 45 and Nanda Jani, 35, of Koraput district, nearly 500 km from state capital Bhuban...

Physicists have joined forces to perfect a powerful new weapon in the war on terrorism – a laser technique to identify deadly anthrax spores. //Their results are published in the prestigious journal Science, due to hit newsstands tomorrow.
“Our report shows how to use lasers to detect anthrax ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md., April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PharmAthene, Inc. (NYSE Amex: PIP ) a biodefense company developing medical countermeasures against biological and chemical threats, announced today that it will be hosting a conference call for investors on Wednesday, April 29th beginning at ...

PINE BROOK, N.J., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Elusys Therapeutics, Inc.
(Elusys), a privately held biopharmaceutical company developing
antibody-based therapies for the treatment of life-threatening infectious
diseases, today announced it has been awarded a contract for $12 million
for advanced d...

Single-Dose Protection Observed Prior to or Up to 24 Hours After
Exposure to Anthrax
TORONTO, Ontario, May 24, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Targanta
Therapeutics Corporation announced today the results from a recent
study demonstrating oritavancin as a potential therapy for treating
exposure to Bacillus a...

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NEW YORK (July 24, 2009) -- A large attack on a major metropolitan area with airborne anthrax could affect more than a million people, necessitating their treatment with powerful antibiotics. A new study finds that in order for a response to be effective, quick detection and treatment are essentia...

Baltimore, MD, and Christchurch, NZ June 25, 2009 Veritide Ltd., a developer of innovative biological identification and detection solutions, today reported that new independent data to be presented at the Biodetection Technologies 2009 conference confirm the exceptional accuracy of its Ceeker (...

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have used a new approach, known as RNA-Seq, to profile the gene expression of the bacterium that causes anthrax, Bacillus anthracis. Their study, published March 20, 2009, online by the Journal of Bacteriology , marks the first time any bacterial...

They have worked for almost seven years in secret.
Most people did not know that the work in Ray Goehner's materials characterization department at Sandia National Laboratories was contributing important information to the FBI's investigation of letters containing bacillus anthracis, the spores...

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Army Dugway (Utah) Proving Ground have developed reliable methods based on DNA analysis to assess the concentration and viability of anthrax spores after prolonged storage. The techniques and data are essential...

In October 2001, letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two U.S. senators, killing five people and infecting 17 others. Clearing the Senate office building of the spores with chlorine dioxide gas cost $27 million, according to the Government Accountability ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--MIT and New York University researchers have identified a weakness in the defenses of the anthrax bacterium that could be exploited to produce new antibiotics.
The researchers found that nitric oxide (NO) is a critical part of Bacillus anthracis's defense against the immune re...

Troy, N.Y. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new way to seek out specific proteins, including dangerous proteins such as anthrax toxin, and render them harmless using nothing but light. The technique lends itself to the creation of new antibacterial and antimicrobia...

ROCKVILLE, Maryland July 9, 2009 Human Genome Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: HGSI) today announced publication by the New England Journal of Medicine of the results of two pivotal animal efficacy studies, which showed the life-saving potential of the Company's human monoclonal antibody drug raxibacum...

Not all biological weapons are created equal. They are separated into categories A through C, category A biological agents being the scariest: They are easy to spread, kill effectively and call for special actions by the pubic health system. One of these worrisome organisms is anthrax, which has al...

A new statistical method that can estimate the origin and time of an aerosolized release of the pathogen causing anthrax, following detection of the first few cases has been developed by researchers from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling at Imperial Coll...

ANNAPOLIS, Md., July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PharmAthene, Inc. (NYSE Amex: PIP ), a biodefense company developing medical countermeasures against biological and chemical threats, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has completed its review of the Company's propos...

Baltimore, MD, and Christchurch, NZ June 25, 2009 Veritide Ltd., a developer of innovative biological identification and detection solutions, today reported that new independent data to be presented at the Biodetection Technologies 2009 conference confirm the exceptional accuracy of its Ceeker (...

--In Testing Conducted by a U.S. Research Institute, Ceeker Correctly Detected Anthrax 100% of the Time--
--Provides First Responders with a Simple and Reliable Tool to Help Quickly Distinguish Public Health Emergencies from Mere Nuisances--
--Study Data to be Presented by Prof. Lou Rei...

A new statistical method that can estimate the origin and time of an aerosolized release of the pathogen causing anthrax, following detection of the first few cases has been developed by researchers from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling at Imperial Coll...

ANNAPOLIS, Md., April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- PharmAthene, Inc. (NYSE Amex: PIP ), a biodefense company developing medical countermeasures against biological and chemical threats, announced today that results from a second Phase II study of SparVax(TM) were presented yesterday at the 12th Annual Conf...

A new statistical method that can estimate the origin and time of an aerosolized release of the pathogen causing anthrax, following detection of the first few cases has been developed by researchers from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling at Imperial Coll...

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